The Inquisition not only hunted for Protestants and for false converts from Judaism among the conversos, but also searched for false or relapsed converts among the Moriscos, forced converts from Islam. The Moriscos were mostly concentrated in the recently conquered kingdom of Granada, in Aragon, and in Valencia. Officially, all Muslims in the Crown of [...]

Auteur: Francisco Pradilla (1848–1921) Boabdil confronted by Ferdinand and Isabella after the Fall of Granada 1492 1492 has long been seen as the “miracle year” of the Spanish realms. This lecture addresses the importance of 1492 from different perspectives and focuses on Jews, Conversos, Muslims, Moriscos, and the natives of the New World. BY looking [...]

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Credit Photo: Deposit Photo Over a thousand years ago, Europe experienced one of its greatest periods of cultural enlightenment.   For more than three centuries in Medieval Spain, Muslims, Jews and Christians lived together and prospered in a thriving multicultural civilization. Here, remarkable individuals of different faiths made lasting contributions in such areas as poetry, art, [...]